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- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch
- With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the user experience of WiMax subscribers by allowing them to, for example, quickly look up restaurants, check traffic and weather, and...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Community managers akin to 'Internet police'
- More fodder for the "marketing should stop trying to control the message" file. Don't control. Don't manipulate. Join the conversation. by Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'
- Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'Allowing your brand to be jackedI think the primary concern for an organization would be that of control. It's a win-win as long as things are going well, of course, but what happens when the unpaid maintainer decides to go completely rogue?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- The Gammima Strain
- Photo: NASA Is the International Space Station just another bot in a botnet? Are criminal hackers tapping away in some dark warehouse now in control of critical command-and-control systems on board? No, that would make a good Michael Crichton novel, though. It seems some...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud failsMore to blameShame on the customers who selected this vendor. When evaluating vendors in the cloud, your RFP should identify exactly how these companies secure, backup, and process your data. I fear that poorly run IT shops like this one will...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
- With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Major security hole found in iPhone
- Major security hole found in iPhonewhose fault?Seems to me you're blaming Apple for bad coverage when you should be blaming O2. Didn't they give you some sort of trial period when you sign up to see how the coverage was in your area?The risk Me-Firsters takeEr, I mean early...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- A way to assign copyright globally
- A way to assign copyright globallySo would you sign an FLA?Not yet. I don't know what the safe guards are. Sometimes the change from that which is free to that which is out of freedom's reach is one of small unnoticed steps. The Open Source code base...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practices
- Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practicesOh this is going to be goodApple is going to have a tough time wiggling out of this one and MS have a great opportunity, ad-wise, to strongly differentiate themselves, not that they had any difficulty with that in the first place, but keying...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Mozilla shows off Ubiquity: Mashups for the rest of us
- Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity, an experiment that would allow users to create mashups at will without any advance knowledge. The game plan for Ubiquity, still in its early stages, is to allow users to control the browser by searching on something in real English and then connecting...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- XingYu Budget (exe)
- XingYu Budget is for those who have to keep track of finances in one account or those who control a number of different accounts in a variety of currencies. Using XingYu Budget, you can accurately record different financial transactions; arrange different scheduled transactions; have a well-thought-out plan to set budgets;...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Bytescout BarCode SDK (zip)
- Bytescout BarCode SDK is 100% .NET SDK to generate, display barcodes. Includes both visual control for WindForms and ASP.NET applications and non-visual classes to generate barcodes and save into TIFF, GIF, and PNG images. Supported symbologies: Codabar, Code39, I2of5, Code93, Code128, EAN13, JAN13, Bookland, UPCA, UPCE, EAN8, and Postnet; includes...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- LG 50PG20
- The LG 50PG20 is the company's least expensive 50-inch plasma, competing against similar entry-level models from Samsung and Panasonic. It doesn't have the 1080p resolution of higher-priced plasmas, but we didn't really miss that extra detail. What we did miss with this LG, namely deep black levels and more accurate...
- Product reviews 2008-08-26
- Malware detected at the International Space Station
- Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : "W32.Gammima.AG worm is a level 0 gaming virus intended to gather personal information. Virus was never a threat to any of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications
- Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Citrix makes virtualization splash with new version of XenApp to speed desktop applications delivery
- In my thinking, virtualization is allowing the best of the old central command and control with the new user flexibility and ease of innovation. Virtualizing broadly places more emphasis on the datacenter and less on the client, without the end user even knowing it. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Go ahead...bring in your laptop
- Go ahead...bring in your laptopWe allow people to use their ownso long as they allow me to install security software and updates and inspect the machines at my discretion. Those who do use their own see this as me doing them a favor, not the other way around.I use my...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
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